Posted on 12/17/2006 5:07:09 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, December 17th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.; FedEx Corp. CEO Frederick Smith; retired Marine Corps Commandant Gen. P.X. Kelley, co-chairmen of the Energy Security Leadership Council; Morrill Worcester, president of Worcester Wreath.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; retired Army Gen. Jack Keane; Rep.-elect Joe Sestak, D-Pa.; actor and activist Isaiah Washington.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi; Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Shibley Telhami, Brookings Institution; retired Army Gen. Daniel Christman; Vali Nasr, Council on Foreign Relations; John Podesta, Center for American Progress; Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute.
I assume since you posted that link you agree with Mike Reagan?
I disagree strongly with his assumption that the Iraq War is "sorry", that is, a failure. It is a huge success for us and the majority of the Iraqi people in just getting rid of Saddam Hussein, his demonic sons, and his brutal regime.
This war has not even begun to see an end. I said back then it would take at least ten years to finally bring the fundementalist crazies under control, and that will mean we have to kill the most rabid. And we are. Last month, it was reported (but never said by the DBM) that over 5900 terrorists were killed in Iraq. And BTW, that is not an abnormally high figure. The military does not want to do a body count like in Vietnam, due to the propaganda factor the body count led to then, but they do keep track of enemy loses.
Because we are killing a lot of Islamofascists currently (even though many FReepers want "Total War"--they haven't been keeping up that we've been very agressive there, due to the DBM suppressing that fact), staying the course makes the most sense. We're keeping the Islamofascists focused on fighting us there, instead of here, and where attriting them hugely.
We need to support our military and President for KEEPING UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
Of course :)
I don't think Newt is running
Good lord - you are right on the money.
Pessimism is viral in nature - anyone who does not take care of themselves is easily infected - especially the weak.
And? Did he answer?
Fox saying that Harry Reid supports a surge in troops in Iraq; this is shocking. Still no Juan smack-down...maybe the next segment.
Jon Kyl wasn't quiet about it. He was furious and he said so.
Newt is not presidential material - and he knows it.
He is a "man of ideas" - that is his value to all Americans.
In the Mid-East wars and disputes have historically been measured in hundreds of years,we need to keep all that in perspective.
Failure should not be an option in Iraq and success cannot be measured in short time, only in terms of how much of the country is stable and how much is not.
We have a formidable enemy both form within and from wit out, the only way to win in Iraq is to stay the course and slowly but surely turn the country over to the local as they are ready.
Thank God we have a President who is not swayed by Mon. morn. types or the msm. it may not alway be a straight up process, maybe three steps forward and two back but overall we can and should win.
I'll second that.
What good is all those idea's if you don't use them?
Tim Russert is a scumbag.
When his good father, to whom Timmy wrote the glowing and loving book finds out what a scummy, sycopantic rat Timmy really is, how dear little Timmy sold his soul to the devil to keep his place in the media, his father will want to die.
Dad ....... I suggest you just slap little Timmy silly.
And Newt's response was he will decide in September 2007. His decision will be based on whether or not any of the other Republican candidates has sealed it off by then.
Newt was outstanding today, but he normally is. I think the odds of his winning the nomination are long, but not impossible.
Isn't his dad a dem too?
99.9% of all good ideas - are old and not new.
The power of Newt is that many of ideas are compelling - they simply have to be given enough time and press to take seed.
In our country - so large and so diverse - it takes time and a lot of exposure for even the best ideas to take hold.
Brilliant post here and so accurate.
What Newt said is that he is going to wait and see whether the nomination is sewed up by Labor Day and, if not, he will get in...probably.
Did you notice that when Timmy wanted to plug his books, he went to the conservative talk shows to promote it? I guess he figured that his fellow liberals would be interested in such things as "fatherhood" and "family values."
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